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The… 24 May 2011

New photographs released of tsunami hitting the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Japan. Tepco power station’s sea defences seen crumbling as wall of seawater overwhelms facility….Most of the cars disappear as the waters rise higher – just one can be seen, standing vertically on its nose. [Tepco/AFP/Getty Images]

They don’t seem to want to show the first shots of the tsunami hitting the square, so artfully designed outerwalls of the blue and white towers. I thought the design looked like tissue paper, art paper designs. And hell yeah, it was tissue paper.

And now we know, because they say so now, that within hours we had initial stages of melt down. I am so very shocked.

And of course surprised.

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A lovely listing of protests, with arrests, just in the Years of Obama, part of our long, slow, inevitable trickle down thru the muddy drains of imperial collapse.

Jack Cohen-Joppa, who with his partner Felice, edits The Nuclear Resister, told me

“Over the last three decades, in the course of chronicling more than 100,000 arrests for nonviolent protest and resistance to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, torture, and war, we’ve noted a quadrennial decline as support for protest and resistance gets swallowed up by Presidential politicking. It has taken a couple of years, but the Hopeian addicts of 2008 are finally getting into recovery [hmm well, maybe, but!, let’s not rely on the Hopium addicts – Mcat].

We’re again reporting a steady if slow rise in the numbers willing to risk arrest and imprisonment for acts of civil resistance.

Today, for instance, there are more Americans serving time in prison for nuclear weapons protest than at any time in more than a decade.”

If reading the protest list does not cause an almost involuntary sense of rage against the parade of Shuffle Toe’d, Shambles and Mess of Shit for Brains leaders who throw themselves at us… well….

(And that drippy, third-rate, God Bless America! thugdom from Bibi this morning is just the carcinogenic cherry on top of it all…)

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hmm I see Irish Times just calls it “triple meltdown”. No beating around the bush…

ENGINEERS IN Japan’s ruined Fukushima nuclear plant have revealed it suffered a triple meltdown in the four days after being battered by a huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11th.

The news confirms fears that reactor three, which contains controversial mixed uranium-plutonium fuel, known as Mox, was among the casualties of the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Mox is considered thousands of times more toxic than uranium nuclear fuel.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said yesterday that most of the nuclear rods inside reactors two and three had melted and fallen to the bottom of their containment vessels. Last week the company admitted that most of the fuel rods in reactor one had melted after the plant’s cooling systems were knocked out.

“The situation inside two and three is almost the same,” said Tepco spokesman Yoshimi Hitosugi last night. The company said the fuel in reactor three took about 60 hours to melt. The reactor melted down 100 hours after the magnitude nine quake struck. . . . .

1, 2, 3. Knock out punches.

In other news, criminal boychicks play ping pong, declare themselves “essential for the world” (not merely special like wares on the sale table at Macy*s) and I noticed Mother Michelle looked bored out of her skull at the various displays and events.:lol:

This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.

It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.

Barack Obama

24 May 2008

It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke.

Update: For those who find the European-style date suspicious, the Telegraph reports that a “Westminster Abbey spokeswoman confirmed it was the president who had written the wrong date.”

caught a slobbery write up, which I couldn’t bear to digest, and piccys of that hideous ruffled pink gown and pink chair for She, Herself…will be ever so glad not to overhear again, slobber about her show, since it appears OWN may be heading for disaster.

Speaking of Oprah, please check out this piece [unfortunately, that link doesn’t lead to the piece; it appears the piece has been scrubbed from the NOLA archives forChris Rose – diane] by New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose. Rose was set to appear in a Katrina-related episode of Oprah, and he was thrilled that he’d get to mention his new book about life after the deluge, “1 Dead in Attic.”

Except there was a small problem: Oprah’s producers banned him from mentioning his book, or even propping the tome up in his cubicle. [The book ended up receivinggreat reviews from customers – diane.]

“[B]eing a first-time author and going on Oprah but being told you can’t mention your book is pretty much akin to having Charlize Theron walk up real close to you, take off all her clothes, look you in the eye — lean so close you can feel her warm breath — and whisper in your ear: ‘You may not touch me,’” Rose wrote.

After Rose’s interview, which he did despite the book ban, Rose was presented with a release form that said he may not write about his appearance on the show. Rose refused to sign, an act of rebellion that a producer said might get him cut from Oprah’s show.

“But even if they do leave me on the cutting-room floor, that’s OK with me,” Rose wrote. “Because then I have the unique and attention-grabbing advertising campaign any new and hopeful author would kill for: AS NOT SEEN ON OPRAH!”

oh her shows on Katrina were terrible. She was just a government mobster. The ones filmed down there were beyond disgusting. She embraced HORRIBLE people who were making things worse. Esp black thug types like Eddie Compass who was acting Chief of Police.

(Spike embraced him too.. and a lot of slobber for Russell Honoree, the *** general, light skinned black, sent in to make it seem it was all working. Sick empty showboating.)

I will miss him, but I undersand where he is. (I am not going anywhere, however).

It is all “What the Fuck is Next?” now… which I thought again as it is reported today that Obby, in London, says he will continue to pound Libya and work to get rid of Qaddafi. One world, under the USA, til someone rises to take us down. Help us destroy ourselves.

I thought at first he might be referring to a Twitter IPO….I can imagine.the Wall Street investors waiting for that IPO and refering to $$$$$the bird of freedom chirps$$$$$ guess that old asshole Churchhill may have been prophetic.

[T]his conviction lives on in their people today. The challenges we face are great. The work before us is hard. But we have come through a difficult decade, and whenever the tests and trials ahead seem too big or too many, let us turn to their example, and the words that Churchill spoke on the day that Europe was freed:

“In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we’ve done, and they will say ‘do not despair, do not yield…march straightforward'”

With courage and purpose; with humility and hope; with faith in the promise of tomorrow, let us march straightforward together, enduring allies in the cause of a world that is more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Thank you.

It is a terrible speech. Short version: We are for Freedom and Peace… and War War War is the way to get to those heart fluttering, bird chirping ideals.

Oh and the UK and USA are essential for the world. We matter. Believe it or we bomb you off the earth. Etc.

AND no longer mentioned, but I plowed alll thru the commentary and track backs a couple years ago when suddenly it was … “must recognise the right of the JEWISH state of Israel to exist”. Even tho it would appear to be counterintuitive it was a new wrinkle coming from the Israeli head of state.

And anyway, so much fucking demanding. So scared of how we will look when, if the Palestinian statehood comes up for a vote in the UN.

Zionists and Israel supporters deny it, but there IS religious friction in Israel between Orthodox and the secular majority. They DO have a nutzo religious ”police”… Actual police have to be sent in to keep the Othodox from bitching at people for being on cell phones, being out and about, driving etc on the Sabbath. Doing much fo the same stuff the Mukhabarat do in Arabia nad so on.

Tensions between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over the renewal of the Patriot Act spilled out onto the Senate floor Wednesday, two days before the measure extending the counterterrorism surveillance law is set to expire.

Reid took to the floor Wednesday afternoon to publicly accuse Paul of holding up progress on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Reid said the conservative freshman and founding member of the Senate Tea Party Caucus was endangering national security by pressing for an amendment that would prevent certain gun records from being searched under the law.

“It’s all dealing with a gun amendment,” Reid said of the controversy over the latest Patriot Act renewal….[let’s get beyond that Harry, … explain to us: your fucking reasons for supporting that slimy piece of shit…you pathetic, disgusting, worthless excuse for a Public Servant…you, and all the rest of the Hos – diane]

just for the pleasure of knowing it’s pissing off He, Himself, as the Patriot Act Extensions, must be signed sealed and delivered to Europe for His, Hisself’s signature, by the midnight Thursday (EDT?) expiration date…OR ELSE WE ARE IN DANGER OF TERRERISM FROM WITHIN

I’m sure he was already pissed at Iceland for the dusty threat of flight cancellations. (Hmm the required air flight for signing was noted at the WAPO link directly above, early, early morning on the 24th, the article has since been significantly revised, though, heh, the url still reads: http[colon]//www[dot]washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-races-to-extend-patriot-act-send-to-obama-in-europe-before-friday-deadline/2011/05/24/AFrxmIAH_story.html)

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used a procedural tactic to deny any amendments after failing to reach a deal with opponents of the bill on what amendments should be allowed. “I have to get this done,” Reid said. “We can’t let this expire.”

….The legislation covers three provisions — two from the Patriot Act that was enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks — that are due to expire at midnight Thursday without congressional action.

While most parts of the Patriot Act are permanent law, two provisions were given temporary status because of their controversial nature. One gives law enforcement powers to set roving wiretaps to monitor multiple communication devices and the second permits court-approved access to “any tangible thing,” from business documents to library records, that could be relevant to a terrorist threat.

The third provision, part of a 2004 intelligence act, gives the FBI court-approved rights to secretly monitor non-American “lone wolf” suspects without known ties to a terrorist group.

As Democrats hustle to shovel a billion dollars into President Obama’s campaign coffers – making promises to rich people and their corporations every step of the way – America’s billionaires are spending even more money to seize control of the nation’s public schools. Although super-wealthy capitalists like Microsoft’s Bill Gates, fellow computer mogul Michael Dell, real estate magnate Eli Broad, and the rapacious owners of Wal-Mart, the Walton Family, would like people to think of them as philanthropists, they are nothing more than down-and-dirty investors who hope to reap much more than they sow. This mega-buck mafia’s goal is to gain access to the $600 billion per year that taxpayers pump into public schools, and then to profit in perpetuity by shaping the nation’s educational system to their corporate needs. The corporate education project has nothing to do with growing new generations of smarter, socially aware, independent-thinking citizens, but is designed to raid public treasuries through wholesale contracting-out of public schooling.

so fucking true:

….The American people are being conned by billionaire hustlers who are stealing the public schools – and the national future – right in front of our eyes.

There was a good analysis of Columbine, in all the mess of verbiage after the killings. It was commented that the school itself looked like the modern suburban office park.

And, the analysis went, it surely did. As that is what the PARENTS valued.

I paid strict attention when the 4 ”Jersey Girls” surfaced in the wake of 9/11. All four were wives of some level or other of corporate executive at Cantor Fitzgerald, which was almost at the top of the building – and in fact had DoD contracts, among other connections to government….

They freely admitted, they did not vote with any regularity (neither do I, anymore, but I pay attention) nor did they know anything at all, down to basics like the 2 houses of Congress, which was which, which was bigger, etc… they admitted they knew nothing at all of how government at any level operated.

Of course not, they took their lead from the corporate structure. They admitted they voted for Bush as they attended events Cantor Fitzgerald put on in support of Bush (and they proceeded to be very disappointed in Kerry, after they signed on to appear with him, extracted promises w/r/t 9/11 and got royally stiffed. I think all have said they are IND now, not R or D).

Of course they HAD voted, whether they went into the polling booth or not….. They were satisfied til their husbands died in quite spectacular fashion.

So.

Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has been taken to the Intensive Care Unit of Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, after he was removed from prison for a medical emergency without any notification to his family, friends or lawyers. Prison officials told his supporters he is in diabetic shock. We get an update f […]

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George Mitchell, the former senator and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Obama, joins us to discuss the escalating U.S.-Israel standoff over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign against an Iran nuclear deal and open rejection of the two-state solution. Last week, it emerged Israeli intelligence spied on the Iran talks and […]

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On Reality Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, "people find hope in the work that we're doing and in the fact that Rachel was there that day, and stood against what was happening to all of those families in the Gaza Strip"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee is seeking a private interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her use of private email and a personal computer server while at the State Department, the panel said in a letter released on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Indiana Governor Mike Pence said on Tuesday he will "correct" the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act this week to make it clear that businesses cannot use it to deny services to same-sex couples.

(Reuters) - Indiana Governor Mike Pence said on Tuesday he will "correct" this week the state's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act to make it clear that businesses cannot use it to deny services to same-sex couples.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's governor on Monday vetoed legislation that would have kept secret for 60 days the identities of police officers involved in deadly shootings, a move that was both welcomed and heavily criticized by separate state police union leaders.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.